I managed to watch the service even through a devastating thunderstorm. And it wasn't a media circus, but a moving service that brought me to tears, especially Stevie Wonder's songs and the voices of Michael and his daughter Paris.

Turn back the clock two weeks, and who among even those that acknowledged that his appearance was the result of a skin condition and his behavior the result of abuse, would have refrained from laughing at Jackson? Seems pretty hypocritical that people laughed at him when he was alive to feel the pain but now he's dead and beyond caring, people care? I don't get how death makes someone immune for 22.3 years. I can see south park doing something on this.

People using the service as their soapbox annoyed me; he was a champion of equality and did some charity work, but more than that, he was a father and a brother and that should've been what the service was about. The daughter's speech was the only part that got to me, mainly by making me feel like i was intruding on something obscenely private.

I should've posted the link to this article last week when I first became apprised of it. I dunno, it's an interesting article on MJ, and I don't know if I fully believe everything in it (even though it makes complete and total sense), but I felt like it kinda threw him under the bus juuuust a tad.

The "oh someone told me he was diagnosed with schizophrenia" bit made me roll up. One as famous as jackson isn't just diagnosed with schizophrenia and able to keep it hidden, nor would the family of one who had kept it hidden for years just blurt out hell yeah he's a schizophrenic the moment he croaks it.

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